Mexico’s authorities welcomes 36 new ‘Putin spies’ in face of European exile

The Mexican authorities is curbing a global pattern by welcoming Russian delegates with open arms.

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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who says he stays impartial within the face of conflict, has authorised the accreditation of 36 new Russian diplomats to the nation.

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According to the international news site Infobae, Russian President Vladimir Putin turned to his ally AMLO after seeing a whole bunch of diplomats expelled throughout Europe.

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Countries throughout the continent have kicked out greater than 400 Kremlin workers who had been stationed at embassies within the likes of Germany, Poland and the Netherlands.

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But AMLO’s concession to Putin means a complete of 85 Russian diplomats are actually on Mexican soil.

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The sudden 60 per cent enhance within the official employees of the Russian Embassy in Mexico “can only reflect Putin's desire to expand his manoeuvres in the Americas,” Infobae says.

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John Feeley, former US ambassador and safety specialist, assured the Mexican media that "the number of Russian diplomats in Mexico would not make any sense if what they were doing were traditional embassy duties" and, quite the opposite, he harassed: "Spies almost always have diplomatic cover."

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Russia took benefit of López Obrador and arrange an operational headquarters of the GRU - its high secret intelligence company - on Washington's doorstep and able to violate the ideas of the Vienna Convention.

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Some analysts have watched the transfer with scepticism as issues over the Russian operations in Mexico develop.

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Some worry that Russian spies will now have the ability to maintain conferences with their undercover brokers within the United States on a extra common foundation and thus enhance the effectiveness of their clandestine operations.

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Additional reporting by Maria Ortega.

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